I got into the habit of <> for not equal in Rexx for that reason. Looking at Cowlishaw now I see that there is no strict variant of <>.
You mean \ right? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 6:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EBCDIC (was: Json table characters) For REXX I have used the / operator for years now which is portable. The logical not character has not aged well. On 8/08/2018 9:36 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Yeah, and on my PC there is a similar issue with ¬ (Logical Not); is it AA or > AC? That's a major issue if you/re coding PL/I or REXX. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of > David Crayford <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 10:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: EBCDIC (was: Json table characters) > > On 8/08/2018 4:15 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> What's the history of IBM-1047? Why does it seem to be controversial? >> Does it have the same set of printable glyphs as IBM-037 or IBM-500? >> What need impelled it? > Good question! Do you know the answer? And don't get me started on the > line-feed/newline x'15' fiasco! > > I use IBM-1047 for the projects I work on because I work in z/OS UNIX > but other teams use IBM-037 because that was the default in their > terminal emulators many years ago. > We've got C/C++ code with different square brackets depending on the > project which is incredibly annoying if the source is in a PDS so it > can't be tagged. IDE's like RD/z (or > whatever it's called now) do a good job solving code page hell. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
